Since it became something people could feel smug about being one of only a small number of people who have heard of something.

CSB:

This sign actually hung in a comic book shop years and years ago...

"You are not cooler than us simply because you ask us if we carry a comic we've never heard of."

The word hipster itself is pretentious, everything that has 'fans' will have a subculture of fans that thinks they are better because they intentionally look for obscure stuff to like. Do I get to be a hipster because I noticed people did this idiotic thing before it was 'cool' to notice people did this idiotic thing?

impaler:brap: Okay cutting of water access in the National Parks was a dick movecutting off WIC money for infant formula was criminally negligent

But cutting off seasonal beer production?Senator, you just farked with the wrong beverage.

Where the hell are the pitch forks?

Well, there was already a backlog at the Department of Farm Implement Inspectional Services, and now with the shutdown, it's basically just me and Verne and about a thousand acres of John Deeres to look at...